A new play by Suzy McCalley explores the powerful, sensual and spiritual world of seven extraordinary women – their challenges and triumphs. Fantasy mingles with reality in these tales of the divine and the vulnerable in all women. Enjoy original new music and choreography – a feast for the senses!

“Honors the masculine and feminine in each of us. Very relatable to men and women.”

“This play is about transformation and finding yourself. Its about truth. Acceptance. What it means to be a woman. Its messy, its about trust and fear, insecurities and being vulnerable.” “Tells the story through movement, words and music.”

Sponsored in part by the NC Black Repertory Company and the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County as well as several local businesses. Nathan Freeman is serving as Dramaturg and Allen Joines as Co-Producer.

Suzy McCalley was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, attended university in Austin, Texas and has lived in North Carolina for last 8 years with her son Henry. She is an interdisciplinary artist – incorporating her voice, violin, acting, writing and movement talents into her work with individuals and organizations. Locally Suzy has created art programs through partnerships with organizations including The Children’s Home, The Shalom Project, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, UNCSA, The Enrichment Center, The Center for Design Innovation and The Community Arts Cafe. Suzy founded and co-owns The Breathing Room a hub for yoga, arts and the healing arts located in the West End Millworks in downtown Winston Salem. “A Goddess Tale” is her first full length play.

Meera Syal (The Kumars, Goodness Gracious Me, Rafta Rafta at the National) returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rufus Norris (Broken, London Road).

Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale.

India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate.

But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.

The RiverRun International Film Festival is one of the country’s premiere regional film festivals. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Festival annually presents a rich blend of new films by established and emerging filmmakers, showcasing a diverse collection of cinematic voices from around the world.

Held annually each spring, RiverRun screens a wide variety of feature-length and short films from all genres, and also presents a broad range of special events, including high-profile regional premieres of significant films, celebrity tributes, family matinees and classic retrospectives as well as a full mixture of panel discussions and parties.

Tickets and passes can be purchased at The Stevens Center – 405 W. Fourth St, by phone 336-721-1945, or online.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please visit the RiverRun website (www.riverrunfilm.com) or call the office at 336-724-1502.

Piedmont OperaTicket prices: $23.50 adult / $16 student PURCHASE TICKETSOpera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar (Giulio Cesare, Maria Stuarda, Il Trovatore), who sets the verismo action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian setting. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria Rusticana, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci. Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cav) and Patricia Racette (Pag) play the unlucky heroines. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

In 1860s Wyoming, two mail order brides meet while waiting for their husbands to arrive. Bess is a romantic, yearning for her one true love. Macon Hill is fiercely determined to make a new life in the wild, wild West. Far from what they expected, the years pass and their lives become entangled. When Bess disappears all assume she is lost forever, but when she returns with daring tales of life among the Indians, a new future beckons. A fierce and funny story of a friendship strong enough to survive natural disasters, kidnappings, and even husbands.

Presented in connection with Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart in Greensboro